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# AI ethical framework

K-Pro is designed to help biopharma teams make decisions with confidence. The same qualities that make an answer useful for a research decision (being grounded, transparent, and open to challenge) are the ones that make it responsible. This page sets out the principles that guide how K-Pro is built.

### Principles

| Principle                          | What it means                                                                                     | How it shows up in K-Pro                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Grounded in data**               | Answers should be rooted in real patient data and scientific evidence, not in the model's memory. | Analyses are computed by tools running on curated datasets; literature answers cite the publications they draw on.                                                                                                                                                       |
| **Transparent**                    | Users should be able to see how an answer was produced.                                           | The **Thought process** section shows the tools called; K-Pro states the cohort, filters, and statistical tests it applied.                                                                                                                                              |
| **Traceable and reproducible**     | Reasoning should be followable end-to-end, and a workflow should be repeatable.                   | Orchestration is traced; skills are versioned so the same workflow can be rerun.                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **Contestable**                    | Users should be able to question, challenge, and override outputs.                                | Every result can be interrogated in follow-up prompts, checked against its sources, and rejected; K-Pro never takes decisions on your behalf.                                                                                                                            |
| **Human in charge**                | The scientist stays in charge of the science.                                                     | K-Pro informs decisions; qualified people make them. More autonomous workflows keep the scientist in control of the plan and key steps.                                                                                                                                  |
| **Privacy and security by design** | Data should be protected by default.                                                              | Access to data and tools is controlled per organization; content exchanged with external tools is screened; see [Privacy architecture](/governance-and-security/privacy-architecture.md) and [Security architecture](/governance-and-security/security-architecture.md). |

### Intended use

K-Pro is a research and decision-support tool for biopharma R\&D: target identification, indication prioritization, biomarker research, competitive and clinical landscaping, and literature synthesis.

K-Pro is **not** intended to diagnose, treat, or make decisions about individual patients, and it does not replace clinical judgment or regulatory validation. See the [Terms and conditions](/terms-and-support/legal/terms-and-conditions.md) for details.


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